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Chapter 14: Going to the Beach

Li Changle recalled some important events in his previous life and fell asleep at some point. When he heard Zhou Ruonan shouting to wake up, he was a little confused and thought he was dreaming.

When I opened my eyes and saw the old-fashioned canopy bed, I turned my head and saw the two little guys on the bed opposite, and I realized what I was doing.

"Come on!"

He responded at the top of his lungs, walked to the small bed opposite, and took off the younger son's legs that were pressing on the elder's belly.

"Xiaohai, Xiaozhou, get up and go fishing in the sea!"

"Oh!" Li Xiaohai turned over and got up.

Li Xiaozhou rubbed his eyes and was confused for a while before sitting up, "Dad, are we going to catch the giant flower dragon?"

"Yes, get up and catch the big flower dragon!" Li Changle carried him out of bed and watched as the two brothers put on their shoes and walked out of the room together.

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Zhou Ruonan has already put the tools for fishing in the bucket. He also took out the net, net bag, small shovel, needle-nose pliers, chisel, small rake made of thick wire, straw hat and bamboo hat and put them on the table.

Li Changle picked up the straw hat and put it on his head. After thinking about it, he went to find a handful of thin hemp rope for tying crabs and put it in his pocket.

Sister-in-law Li held a bucket and shouted at the door, "Nan, let's go."

"Here we come!" Li Changle put all the fishing tools in his backpack and the family went out.

Sister-in-law Li took one look at Li Changle, who looked fair and clean, and looked nothing like Li Changle who lived in a fishing village. "When Ah Le comes back from fishing, he will be old and swarthy!"

Li Changle held up his straw hat and said, "The black dots are good, so you look like a man!"

He suddenly remembered that in his previous life, he saw a handsome old man who spent money to go to the beach and tan his skin to a tan.

He also thinks that men with bronze skin are the most masculine.

When I think that not only do I not have to spend any money, but I can also make money while tanning myself into a masculine tan, I feel like I have made a lot of money.

It's a pity that no matter how he tans, he will be tanned to a wheat color at best, and there is nothing he can do if he gets darker.

"It's better to look older if you're dark!" Sister-in-law Li laughed out loud, "You are the only one in the family who has the most money."

"I'm the most honest person in the family!"

Sister-in-law Li curled her lips, "The most honest one is Anan."

Li Changle felt that she was right, the most honest, hard-working and uncomplaining person was his wife.

Zhou Ruonan, who was labeled as an honest man, put on the straw hats for the two children, stretched out his hands to them and said, "Auntie, please hold them."

"I'll go by myself." Li Xiaozhou jumped up and down with excitement. He thought it was great that his father was willing to go fishing in the sea. His mother-in-law didn't take them there before.

When he saw the kid next door, he proudly showed off to him, "Alai, your mother-in-law didn't take you to go fishing in the sea? My father and mother-in-law took me to go fishing for big flower dragons!"

"The big flower dragon is in the deep sea, and the floods haven't come yet, so you can't find it." Alai, who has a shaved head and is tanned like a loach, is much more experienced.

Seeing that he didn't believe it, Li Xiaozhou stopped and gestured at him and said: "My father found two of these big ones this morning, and a rice fish, and gave them to A Dong's family to sell. If you don't believe me, go ask A Dong's family!"

Li Changle looked at his proud little son and felt that this guy was carved out of the same mold as him. He could talk to anyone and liked to show off.

After the show off, Li Xiaozhou ran up to him and held his hand, "Abba, Alai doesn't believe you found a giant flower dragon."

"What do you want him to believe?"

"His mother-in-law said you are a lazy second-rate guy who doesn't know how to fish or pan the sea. His father has never found a giant flower dragon."

Li Changle slapped him, "Do you believe dad?"

"I believe it!" The little guy nodded, "Auntie said you found it, and you even bought us ginger candies."

"Just believe it!"

The little guy held Li Xiaohai's hand and said, "Abba, my brother and I believe in you!" He turned around and asked Li Xiaohai who was following behind, "Brother, we all believe in my father, right?"

Li Xiaohai hummed, ran forward and held Zhou Ruonan's hand, "How many more days will the tide come?"

"The big tide news just happened the day before yesterday. The next one will not be until the 15th day of the lunar calendar."

"Then can we still come together?"

"No!" Zhou Ruonan touched his son's head, "My mother is going to dig sand in the tidal flats. You can play with me at home."

Li Xiaohai hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Okay!"

Li Changle glanced at his sensible eldest son and thought that during the big floods on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, that would be the best time to go fishing.

Because the seawater recedes far and fast after spring floods, shellfish move more slowly. When the seawater recedes, some shellfish will not have time to follow the receding tide, and will be stranded on rocks, puddles or mudflats.

Li Changle was eager for the great floods to come soon. He wanted to see what good things would be stranded in the treasure cave, stranded in three puddles without enough time to swim around?

This time they walked from Yantou Mountain towards the beach, and soon the Lai family next door followed them, "Nan, your whole family is going fishing!"

Zhou Ruonan: "Well! I haven't taken them there yet!"

Li Xiaozhou turned to look at Alai's wife, "Auntie, why didn't you bring Alai with you?"

"He looks after the house!"

Li Xiaozhou held him in his arms all the way. When he met a villager he knew well, he asked Li Changle about hunting for rice fish and giant flower dragons in the morning. He didn't answer, so the child showed off to others.

He said that his father was very good at shipping. He found rice fish and giant flower dragons, and sold the money to buy them candies. He also peeled shrimps for them to eat at noon...

It made the adults laugh, but the children were jealous and despised, saying that there was nothing strange about fishing in the sea, and that their father had gone to the desert sea to catch big fish.

The sensitive eldest son told him not to say anything. He also said that he didn't lie, so why couldn't he say it?

Looking at his younger son who showed off to others and his precocious and sensitive eldest son, Li Changle felt increasingly guilty as he thought of his neglect of them in the past.

When I walked out of the cave, I saw the sea water receding in waves, and people were already having sex on the beach.

The beach near their village on the ocean is not like other coastal areas. It is a beautiful golden beach. Most of it is tidal flats. The sand can reach your calves when you step on it.

When spring floods come, some fishermen will erect very high bamboo poles four or five meters apart on the tidal flats, and then hang up seine nets. Others will place nets that are more than ten meters or even dozens of meters long. Roll cage net.

After the tide goes out, fish and crabs stuck to the seine net or fish and shrimps that get into the rolling cage net cannot follow the tide back to the ocean.

Some people will wait for the fishermen who set up the nets to pick them all over before picking up the small fish and shrimps that they don't like.

Arriving at the junction of the water and the tidal flat, Li Changle saw a group of villagers who wanted to go shopping for big stuff following him.

Thinking that with my son, only the reef beach was a beach, I said to Zhou Ruonan, "How about we go to Dongtou Reef Beach to have a look?"

Sister-in-law Li quickly asked: "Is this the rocky beach where you found rice fish this morning?"

Li Changle nodded, "Yes, that's right over there."

"There are already a lot of people walking that way, and I can't find anything good even if I look there!" Sister-in-law Li said and winked at them, fearing that they would be foolishly led away to a fish nest.

Zhou Ruonan understood what she meant and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, Xiaohai, Xiaozhou's legs are short, and they cannot be pulled out when they enter the tidal flat. We can only go to the reef beach."
Chapter completed!
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